Concepts of Science 1010: Auburn University (Exam 1) Study Guide Questions And Actual Answers.
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What is the first attempt that we must understand about physical science? - Answer To understand the workings of the universe
What is the second attempt that we must understand about physical science? - Answer To describe the universe with mathematics and/or precise language
What is the...
Concepts of Science 1010: Auburn
University (Exam 1) Study Guide
Questions And Actual Answers.
What is the first attempt that we must understand about physical science? - Answer To understand the
workings of the universe
What is the second attempt that we must understand about physical science? - Answer To describe the
universe with mathematics and/or precise language
What is the third attempt that we must understand about physical science? - Answer To make
predictions about the world around us
What is the first step of the scientific method? - Answer Observation
What is the second step of the scientific method? - Answer Identifying patterns
What is the third step of the scientific method? - Answer Develop a hypothesis
What does qualitative mean? - Answer It is talking about the quality of for example- something falling
What does quantitative mean? - Answer It is talking about the quantity for example--how high does it
bounce? how long does it take to fall?
What is the last step of the scientific method? - Answer Predict and test
Who is Ptolemy? - Answer An egyptian astonomer in second century AD who came up with the
"geocentric" universe and based his model on observation and data
, What is a geocentric universe? - Answer A universe where everything revolves around the earth
Who was Nicolas Copernicus? - Answer Almost 13 centuries later, he fit that research Ptolemy did to a
different model that explained things better. This was called the "heliocentric" model
What is a heliocentric universe? - Answer A universe that revolves around the sun
Who was Tycho Brahe? - Answer He was a danish nobleman who kept meticulous records and saw a
super-nova which disproved the fact that the earth isn't stagnating.
Who is Johannes Kepler? - Answer He waited till Brahe died to formulate a very accurate model of
planetary motions. Believed orbits were elliptical (go in a circle). He characterized motion of mass but
didn't explain it.
What is speed? - Answer How fast you're going
How is speed calculated? - Answer By taking the distance you traveled and divide that by the time it
takes to do so
What is velocity? - Answer Related to speed, but not exactly the same. Its speed + a direction
What is the formula for speed? - Answer v=d/t which compares to d=rt
What do we usually use? (measurements) - Answer Meters per second
What is acceleration? But? - Answer This is the rate of change of your velocity (how fast your velocity is
changing. BUT your speed OR direction could change.
What did Galileo do? - Answer He invented the telescope and noticed that moons moved around
Jupiter. Also discovered that the moon has craters. He proved that the greek ideas of that time were
wrong.
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